Back to episode — Episode 2667 CWSA 11/22/24
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lains most of you, you might enjoy a podcast I did with Paul Leslie. You can find that on my feed for yesterday, I think. And what's interesting about it is he asked better questions than most people ask. So when you ask better questions, you get better answers, and you might like it a lot. So it's Paul Leslie if you want to find it on his feed on X. He goes by @ThePaulLeslie. So it's just all one…
← Previous segment →you how it went. There was a new study according to Science Blog in which they tested to see if people's mental health worsened if they looked at negative feedback on their digital devices. All right, what do you think? If people were forced to look at a diet of negative information on their phones, for example, do you think it would help or hurt their mental health?
Well, you'll be surprised to learn that marinating in bad news can actually make you sad. Yes, I know it's true. The more exposure you have to negativity, the sadder you get. But weirdly, the worse the news was, the more likely somebody was going to click it. So we have this bad habit where we pursue things that make us feel bad, such as bad news.
Do you know how you could have saved a little money on that study? That's right. You could have just asked Scott. Scott, does exposure to negative thoughts make you feel bad? Huh, let me think about this. Yes. Yes, pretty sure it does. So I'm glad we handled that.
I've actually taken this to the next level. Do you have people in your life who will bring up the most darkest negative story of just some horrible thing that happened to somebody or something you like? And do you ever just say, "Stop, stop"? And they can't stop. Like they want to tell you that somebody beloved had a railroad spike stuck through their head. It's like your favorite person. And you're just like, "Stop, stop." And they go, "Oh no, I was just going to tell you about the..." "No, stop, stop. I know what you're going to do. And when you tell me that, it will only make me feel bad and there will be no positive outcome from this story. So stop. Stop. Do not speak again."
"Well, but just the railroad spike." "No, stop, stop, stop. Don't move your mouth. No more sounds. Stop." And then the railroad spike went through the head. For some reason, when somebody wants to tell you bad news, you can't stop them. I don't know if you've had that experience, but it doesn't matter who it is. You just can't stop them.
Anyway, there's a report that China has developed a surgical cure for Alzheimer's. Now I don't believe anything about this story. It came from a source I'm not familiar with, so it doesn't come with automatic credibility from any source. But let me tell you what they say they've done, and you tell me if you think this is likely t
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o be true. So apparently they've done 42 clinical trials and every one has been a success. And what they're doing is they're doing some surgery on your neck lymphatics. Now of course I understand medical technology deeply, so let me explain to you as it was written down in this report. It's a deep cervical lymphatic venous anastomosis surgery. And the way they do that is they use super microsurge…
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